Canteen.



(No Model.)

A. HOBERECHT.

CANTEEN.

LApplication filed Jan. 17, 1901 Patented May l4, I90l,

' l Vz'iizesses fnmavz for Nrrnn STA ALBERT HOBEREOHI OF ENSENADA, MEXICO, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO JAMES LOUDEN PARKER'AND JOHN HUSSONG, OF SAME PLACE.

CANTEEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 673, dated y 14,

Application filed January 17, 1901. Serial No. 4356M. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT HoBEREoH'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ensenada, in Lower California, in the Republic of Mexico, have invented new and useful Improvements in Canteens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation more particularly to canteens used for packing purposes; and the object thereof is to provide a canteen with reinforced or stifiencd sides and to pre vent it from bulging in the center. I accomplish this object by the means of the can teen shown in the accompanying drawing, in

which- A represents the sides, through which apertures A are cut, into which apertures the cylindrical reinforcement or tube C is placed. A double seam securesitto the sides, when it is firmly soldered thereto' The interior of the tube will prevent the sides from being pushed together or bulging in, which is very liable to occur when the sides are subjected to pressure and the canteen is not full of liquid.

2 5 When this happens, the point where the edge piece B is soldered to the side piece is liable to give way or break and cause a leak at that point and ruin the canteen, as well as result in the loss of the contents thereof. This Y will be impossible when my reinforcement is placed in a canteen. The opening through my I improved canteen affords additional means to secure the canteen in packing, as any num ber of canteens can be placed on any upright standard one above the other and resting on each other, the reinforcement preventing them from collapsing and the standard keep ing them in place. In this condition they may be full of liquid.

The only means of transportation hereto- 4o fore possessed of which I am aware was by means of carrying-straps, which were passed through the strap-retaining brackets D on the edges of the canteen, which was satisinconvenient when it was desired to trans port more than one.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described canteen having a reinforcing-tube projecting through the center thereof, the ends of the tubes being secured to the sides of the canteen, as shown and for the purposes described.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name this 31st day of December, 1900.

ALBERT HOBEREOH'I. Witnesses:

G. E. HARPHAM,

HENRY T. HAZARD.

factory for a single canteen, but was very 45 

